Turkistan Islamic Party in Syria

The Turkistan Islamic Party in Syria is the branch of the Islamist Turkistan Islamic Party in Syria, founded in 2011. The TIP allied with al-Qaeda's al-Nusra Front, the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, Ahrar ash-Sham, and Jaysh al-Nasr, with Turkey's MIT giving assistance to the TIP against the Syrian government, Hezbollah, IRGC, and Russia. The TIP destroyed Syrian churches and massacred Christians in the rural area around Jisr al-Shughour, and the TIP recruited child soldiers; it was a cruel terrorist group, and it had to compete with the Islamic State over the recruitment of Uyghur fighters.